Jack Butland, born on 10 March 1993 (age 33), is an English goalkeeper now with Hull City. A commanding 6ft 5in (1.96m) presence, he came through at Birmingham City before the loan spell that properly started to harden him up: Cheltenham Town in 2011-12, where he made 24 league appearances as a teenager.
That Cheltenham spell matters more than the usual run of early loans. It gave him regular senior football at an age when goalkeepers are often still being discussed in terms of potential. Butland returned to Birmingham with a clearer profile, then moved on to Stoke City, where he became a Premier League goalkeeper rather than just another academy product with promise.
His later career took him through Crystal Palace and a loan at Manchester United, where he picked up a League Cup medal. He then had a spell at Rangers, which inevitably put him under closer Scottish scrutiny than most English goalkeepers of his generation.
Butland is now at Hull City, with his current market value around £1.5m according to Transfermarkt. His career has been shaped by early first-team exposure, a substantial spell in England’s top flight, and later moves that kept him in the senior game rather than on the fringes.
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